Posted on 11/09/2006 1:40:15 PM PST by AppyPappy
The Worst Game of All Time
1. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Atari, 1982) Platform: Atari 2600
About a third of the people I quizzed came up with this title almost instantly, and it's not hard to see why. No matter how you rate it, E.T. was a misbegotten product that deserved to be buried. (And, as things turned out, it was. More on that in a minute.)
How, you may wonder, does someone screw up the one-two punch of the year's most popular movie and the number one video game console? Through a combination of poor planning and unbridled optimism. Warner Communications, then Atari's parent company, sealed the deal to make a video game adaptation of the blockbuster movie in the summer of 1982, aiming to have the cartridge out for the Christmas shopping season. (Remember the TV ad, with E.T. in a Santa outfit? No? You can refresh your memory.) The result was a severely compressed development schedule, giving programmer Howard Scott Warshaw a mere five weeks to pull the game together.
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That's it!
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hey dad owned a bar/Resturant... she had a few different machines and pinball machines in her house
custer's revenge shouldnt be on there either!! im surprised they put that one on there and not beat 'em and eat 'em, another classic.
I owned three of those games and they were awful...with the exception of elf bowling. Come on, one of the greatest ever!!
thats it. :)
thats it. :)
For its time, I also liked Centipede and Galaga
None of the sports games for the 2600 were any good. I also had the Raiders of the Lost Ark game, which kind of blew.
Activision had a few duds, but I loved Pitfall.
"Anyone want to post their top ten? "
1. Madden-ps2
2. NCAA Football-ps2
3. Superbowl SUnday- Cmdr 64
4. Tecmobowl- nintendo
5. Doom- pc
6. President elect -pc
7. Mike Tyson's punchout Nintendo
8. Bard's Tale- PC
9. Panzer General- PC
10. Medal of Honor Ps2
Asteroids and Joust.
Funny story - A friend and I were playing Joust at a movie theatre and we were just wooping it up having a great time. We were so entertaining that we had people crowded around the machine feeding us quarters to keep us playing. I think we missed the start of our movie.
Top ten list (not in order):
1. Planescape Torment - Best RPG ever
2. Half Life 2 - best FPS ever
3. Starcraft - best RTS ever
4. Street Fighter 2 (and compatriots) - best 1 on 1 fighter
5. Mortal Kombat 2
6. Civilization III - best TBS ever
7. Final Fantasy I
8. Super Mario Bros.
9. Super Mario Bros. 3
10.Howard Dean's Mean Scream Machine
Pitfall and Skiing!
I loved Majora's Mask.
I agree, the PacMan for 2600 was NOWHERE near arcade version, but I played it ALOT... I also liked Pitfall and Jungle Hunt
Are those top ten you LIKE? Because there are several there that have no business on a "worst games" list, IMO.
It was great. It's the only lengthy game that I've ever finished and then turned right around and started again. Actually, I should say it's the first, because I've done the same for other Zelda games since. I've played through Minish Cap and the Oracle games at least three times each. Zelda is terrific.
Yeah. It was a repsonse to another poster who asked for (what I thought was) fovorite top ten.
It's lame by today's standards, but I used to love Yar's Revenge.
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